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      The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Friedrich Nietzsche

      The Complete Works of

      FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

      VOLUME 17 OF 24

      The Twilight of the Idols

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Twilight of the Idols’

      Friedrich Nietzsche: Parts Edition (in 24 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 868 8

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

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      Friedrich Nietzsche: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 17 of the Delphi Classics edition of Friedrich Nietzsche in 24 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Twilight of the Idols from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche or the Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in a single eBook.

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      FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

      IN 24 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Philosophical Writings

      1, Homer and the Classical Philology

      2, On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

      3, The Greek State and Other Fragments

      4, The Relation Between a Schopenhauerian Philosophy and a German Culture

      5, Homer’s Contest

      6, The Birth of Tragedy

      7, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

      8, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

      9, Thoughts Out of Season

      10, Human, All Too Human

      11, The Dawn of Day

      12, The Joyful Wisdom

      13, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

      14, Beyond Good and Evil

      15, The Genealogy of Morals

      16, The Case of Wagner

      17, The Twilight of the Idols

      18, The Antichrist

      19, Nietzsche Contra Wagner

      20, The Will to Power

      21, We Philologists

      The Poetry

      22, Collected Poems

      The Autobiography

      23, Ecce Homo

      The Criticism

      24, The Criticism

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      The Twilight of the Idols

      HOW TO PHILOSOPHISE WITH A HAMMER

      Translated by Thomas Common

      Written in 1888 and published the following year, The Twilight of the Idols was written in just over a week, when Nietzsche was on holiday in Sils-Maria. As his fame and popularity was spreading both inside and outside Germany, the philosopher felt that he needed a text that would serve as a short introduction to his work. Originally titled A Psychologist’s Idleness, it was renamed Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with a Hammer.

      In the book, Nietzsche criticises the German and wider European cultures of his day, which he deems as unsophisticated and nihilistic. In contrast to all these alleged representatives of cultural decadence, Nietzsche applauds Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, Thucydides and the Sophists as healthier and stronger types. The book states the transvaluation of all values as Nietzsche’s final and most important project, and gives a view of antiquity wherein the Romans for once take precedence over the ancient Greeks.

      The first edition

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      APOPHTHEGMS AND DARTS

      THE PROBLEM OF SOCRATES

      REASON IN PHILOSOPHY

      HOW THE TRUE WORLD FINALLY BECAME A FABLE.

      MORALITY AS ANTI-NATURE

      THE FOUR GREAT ERRORS

      THE IMPROVERS OF MANKIND

      WHAT THE GERMANS LACK

      SKIRMISHES OF AN UNTIMELY MAN

      WHAT I OWE TO THE ANCIENTS

      THE HAMMER SPEAKETH

      PREFACE

      It requires no little skill to maintain one’s cheerfulness when engaged in a sullen and extremely responsible business; and yet, what is more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds unless overflowing spirits have a share in it. The excess of power only is the proof of power. — A Transvaluation of all Values, that question mark, so black, so huge that it casts a shadow on him who sets it up, — such a doom of a task compels one every moment to run into sunshine, to shake off a seriousness which has become oppressive, far too oppressive. Every expedient is justifiable for that purpose, every case is a case of fortune, — warfare more especially. Warfare has always been the grand policy of all minds which have become too self-absorbed and too profound: there is healing virtue even in being wounded. A saying, the origin of which I withhold from learned curiosity, has for a long time been my motto:

      Increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus.

      Another mode of recuperation, which under certain circumstances is still more to my taste, is to auscultate idols... There are more idols in the world than realities; that is my evil eye for this world, it is also my evil ear... To put questions here for once with a hammer; and perhaps to hear as answer that well-known hollow sound which indicates inflation of the bowels, — what delight for one who has got ears behind his ears, — for me, an old psychologist and rat-catcher in whose presence precisely that which would like to remain unheard is obliged to become audible...

      This work also — the title betrays it — is above all a recreation, a sun-freckle, a diversion into the idleness of a psychologist. Is it also perhaps a new warfare? And new idols are auscultated, are they?... This little work is a grand declaration of warfare: and as regards the auscultation of idols, it is no temporary idols, but eternal idols which are here touched with a hammer as with a tuning-fork, — there are no older, more self-convinced, or more inflated idols in existence... Neither are there any hollower ones... That does not prevent them from being the most believed in. Besides people never call them idols, least of all in the most eminent case...

      Turin, 30th September 1888, the day when the first book of the Transvaluation of all Values was finished.

      FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.

      APOPHTHEGMS AND DARTS

      1

      Idleness is the parent of all psychology. What! is psychology then a — vice?

      2

      Even the boldest of us have but seldom the courage for what we really know.

      3

      To live alone, one must be an animal or a God — says Aristotle. The third case is wanting: one must be both — a philosopher.

      4

      Every truth is simple — Is that not doubly a lie?

      5

      Once for all, there is much I do not want to know. — Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

      6

      We recover best from our unnaturalness, from our spirituality, in our savage moods...

      7

      How is it? Is man only a mistake of God? Or God only a mistake of man? —

      8

      From the military school of life. — What does not kill me, strengthens me.

      9

      Help thyself: then everyone else helps thee. Principle of brotherly love.

      10

      Would that we were guilty of no cowardice with respect to our doings, would that we did not repudiate them afterwards! — Remorse of conscience is indecent.

      11

      Is it possible for an ass to be tragic? — For a person to sink under a burden which can neither be carried nor thrown off?... The case of the philosopher.

      12

      When one has one’s wherefore of life, one gets along with almost every how. — Man does not strive after happiness; the Englishman only does so.

      13

      Man has created woman — out of what do you think? Out of a rib of his God, — his ideal...

      14

      What? you are seeking? you would like to decuple, to centuple yourself? you are seeking adherents? — Seek ciphers! —

      15

      Posthumous men — myself, for example — are worse understood than opportune, but are better heard. More strictly: we are never understood — therefore our authority...

      16

      Among women.— "Truth? Oh, you do not know truth! Is it not an outrage on all our pudeurst."

      17

      That is an artist such as I love, modest in his requirements: he really wants only

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